Back To School…

Here is a glimpse at how we get ready to go back to school.
One thing that is different this year is that my son will be attending public school.
He will be going to receive certain Special Education benefits, like Adaptive Phys Ed and social skills classes.

Homeschooling started out of necessity, but I rather enjoy it. My son has made great academic strides with homeschooling and I hope that he will continue to do so. I will also start pre-school with my daughter this year! Fun fun! Pre-K and 3rd Grade!

How do I prepare?

I spend all summer on Pinterest. Ok, not the whole summer, but a lot of it.

I collect a lot ideas in order to build lessons for my kids. My son, having Autism, thrives on curriculum that is tailored to his interests. Therefore, I collect projects and ideas that I can manipulate to do so. I also allow my children to learn a lot from experience. We go out and about, we cook together, we do household chores. I think that life skills are often times, wrongly misplaced on the back burner during the school years.

I set up our homeschool room, so it is all ready when we get back to school.

I watch sales all year round in order to stock up on school supplies.
I also use gift cards that I receive or earn throughout the year.

Did you know that you can sell gift cards that you won’t use online and then, buy gift cards that you can use?
There is a great site called raise.com. So, if you are anything like me and got anything other than a Target gift card, visit raise.com and get some use out of it!

Our public school starts the day after Labor Day and that is when we will start too!

Good Luck with all of your back to school preparations and good luck to everyone on the first day of school!

How do you prepare for the kids going back to school?

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Comments

Aww, good luck to your kids this year and I actually go to pick up Emma’s supplies from her school today that I ordered back in May. Seriously, just can’t believe that we start up in about a week here, too.

Ahhh, Pinterest… it’s one of my favourite, beloved “resources”! I seriously can’t pin enough new, cool ideas. How does everyone keep on coming up with such brilliance?!

I’m prepared for my oldest daughter (grade 2) but I need to start thinking of activities to keep my 3-year-old busy while we’re engaged in learning. I think I can include her in some activities but I would like to have some special “just for her” things to do.

Thanks for sharing! Wishing you a lovely day and all the best in this coming school year.
xoxo

I spent all summer on Pinterest too! Well not really but I get that sentiment.
I don’t really do anything because we don’t homeschool and I don’t have a teacher bone in my body, and I like to rest and eat ice cream all summer.
That said, your posts knock it out of the park and you have very lucky kids.

I’m excited for your son! I think the public school/homeschool combo is going to be great, especially when the curriculum is tailored for him- because it should be dammit. And you’re so right- real life skills are always on the backburner. I love your homeschooling set-up!

Echo you are one amazing Momma for this! I can only homeschool up to Pre-K and that is all I can handle, so I applaud you and all the homeschool teachers out there – I also love that you incorporate learning from experience because I think that is how kids could learn just as much also! I hope you guys have a great school year!